Virtue does not consist in the absence of the passions, but in the control of them.
It is a great deal easier for a man to find a pedigree to fit his virtues than virtues to fit his pedigree.
We should make virtue our master, not our servant.
Peace is the soft and holy shadow that virtue casts.
It is easier to be virtuous than it is to appear so, and it pays better.
Shame is the dying embers of virtue.
...But why discourse Upon the Virtues of the Horse? They are too numerous to tell Save when you have a Horse to Sell.
